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About This Book

What do sponges and cakes have in common?” Now, your young students can work as scientists to find out! With this unique book, ordinary sponges become powerful learning tools for young children. Fun, but not just for fun… students from ages 3 to 8 will love this sequence of 20 hands-on activities designed to build science process skills and increase pathways for learning in all areas.

• activities include matching, sorting, sponge printing, and soaking up water

• Based on the four phases of the learning cycle: awareness, exploration, inquiry, and application

• Cross-curricular activities in literature, drama, writing, art, biology, and cooking

• Information for teachers on early childhood process skills, learning cycles, and inquiry-based Based science

Recipient of the Early Childhood Science Parent’s Guide Children’s Media Award

Topics : Teaching Strategies

Table Of Content

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Using This Book

Part1: Awareness

Awareness 1: What Do Scientists Do?

Awareness 2: Getting Excited About Sponges

Part2: Exploration

Exploration 1: A Closer Look at Sponges

Exploration 2: Matching Up Sponges

Exploration 3: Sponge Sorting

Exploration 4: Sponges Get Wet

Exploration 5: Sharing Home Samples

Part3: Inquiry

Inquiry 1: Soak It Up

Inquiry 2: Looking at Holes

Inquiry 3: Printing Holes

Inquiry 4: I Wonder

Part4: Advanced Inquiry

Advanced Inquiry 1: How Much Water?

Advanced Inquiry 2: How Heavy Is the Water?

Part5: Application

Application I: Spongy Cakes

Application 2:1s This a Sponge?

Part6: Sponges Across the Curriculum

Across the Curriculum 1: Creative Dramatics

Across the Curriculum 2: Writing to Learn

Across the Curriculum 3: Sponge Painting

Across the Curriculum 4: Sponges and Seeds

Across the Curriculum 5: Sponge Cooking

Part7: Science for Young Learners

Why Preschool Science?

Teaching with learning Cycles

Documenting Learning

Part8: I All About Sponges

Sea Sponges Are Animals

References

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About the Authors

Beverly Kutsunai:

Beverly Kutsunai, Kamehameha Elementary School, Honolulu, HI

Lynn Hogue:

Lynn Hogue, Center for Chemistry Education, Miami University, Middletown, OH

Susan Gertz:

Susan Gertz, Center for Chemistry Education, Miami University, Middletown, OH

ISBN: 9786038147061

Author: Beverly Kutsunai & Susan Gertz & Lynn Hogue

Publisher: Educational Book House

Publish Year: 2015

Size: 17*24cm

Pages number: 144